People v. Modesto’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 71 Cal. 2d 761 - People v. Schader (1969), 68 Cal. 2d 375 - Maine v. Superior Court (1968)
8 federal appellate · 183 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Escobedo v. Illinois · Griffin v. California · Pointer v. Texas
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““were freely and voluntarily made at a time when the officers were concerned primarily with the possibility of saving [the missing girl’s] life. The paramount interest in saving her life, if possible, clearly justified the officers in not impeding their rescue efforts by informing defendant of his rights to remain silent and to the assistance of counsel.... In the present case the officers’ investigatory and rescue operations were necessarily inextricably interwoven until [the missing girl’s] body was found, and it would be needlessly restrictive to exclude any evidence lawfully obtained during the rescue operations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Manning“In thus invoking the beliefs of other judges and juries, predicated upon evidence with which defendant was not confronted at the instant trial, counsel for the prosecution clearly overstepped the bounds of permissible argument. Whatever the guilt of the defendant, he is surely entitled to a trial uninfected by hearsay references to conclusions which others have reached on the basis of unspecified evidence, much of which has subsequently been ruled improper, and none of which defendant could effectively challenge in the present trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`How [the victim's panties] got over there I can't tell you, because I wasn't there. Neither was [defendant's attorney] . . . [s]o, somebody had blood on [him] who took them over there. Who had blood on him? Who is the only person around who had blood on him, besides the two little girls? You know who he is. He is sitting here in this courtroom — and just sitting'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.